Italian Love Cake

My friend Tammy posted on Facebook that she was going to be making dinner for some special friends tonight and that she was going to also be making an Italian Love cake for dessert. I thought that is nice of her, she is always doing nice things for people. But what is an Italian Love cake. I just had to find out.

So I looked it up on the net, and there were a lot of hits. The recipe was the same on every web-site, but I figure that the recipe first came fromDuncan Hines, because it calls for a marble cake mix.

What we are looking at here is two cakes in one. Bottom half is a cheese cake in the middle is a chocolate marble cake and they are both topped off with a chocolate mousse frosting. And that’s a whole lot of cake to love!
And thanks Tammy for bring this great cake recipe to my attention.

Italian Love Cake

1 box fudge marble cake mix
2 pounds ricotta cheese
4 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 small box (3 1/2 to 4 0z.) instant chocolate pudding mix.
1 cup milk
1 8 ounces carton whipped topping, defrosted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9x13x2 inch baking pan
Prepare cake mix as directed on package. Pour batter into prepared pan and set aside.
In another bowl combine ricotta, eggs, sugar and vanilla, mixing well. Spoon the ricotta mixture over unbaked cake batter in pan.
Bake 350⁰F for 45 to 50 minutes.
Cool in pan on rack.
Mix pudding with milk; fold in whipped topping. Spread over cooled cake and refrigerate.